[super7man]

It would take 384,000,000 square ft of solar panels to replace this capaity.

[terycarl]

It would take 384,000,000 square ft of solar panels to replace this capaity

and that's only during the day!!

[mulebones]

It would take 384,000,000 square ft of solar panels. . .

That's 8,815 acres of hot black panels, 20 million pounds of NaS batteries for energy storage and 1,600 1.5 megawatt inverters. That much black surface will increase the temperature of the upstream wind currents significantly. It could even cause some global warming. The total output of solar panels in the US in 2009 was 1,642 MW, 68% of the output of this one coal fired plant.

[TigersEye]

That’s 13.77 sq. miles. Heck, we don’t need to grow food on the land anyway. /s